Energize

Energize your congregantion by offering events that focus on voting efforts (entry-level activities that connect with fellow congregants and services focused on the congregation’s voting needs).

• • Communicate about voting in your congregation
  • Create a Civic Engagement Leadership Team
  • Host 1-2 entry level Get Out The Vote (GOTV) events
    • Host a Postcard Writing Party
    • Congregation connections
  • Challenge 100% registered voters within the congregation and think of a creative way to emphasize it (ie. thermometer to show what percentage of the congregation is registered).
  • Identify specific groups and brainstorm ways to reach out to them
    • Examples:
      • Shut-ins – have a team of people call your shut-ins and ask if they are registered and/or need help voting
      • Young adults – host a special voter engagement event/forum targeted at young adults
      • Send out birthday cards to all 18 year olds and remind them to vote
  • Host voter registration events for your congregants
  • Clergy gives a GOTV sermon within a scheduled service
  • Education on why local elections matter and why your vote matters
  • Create “Adopt a Voter” program
  • Offer rides to the polls for congregants
  • Read a book or watch a movie about voting (better yet if you do this as a part of an already established book or movie group). Click here to see a list of options.